Bell Bearing Hunter | Elden Ring Wiki

It's a crime that his telekinesis sword slashes isn't an ash of war.

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This guy can steal all the bell bearings he wants and gets away with it, but I steal ONE ball bearing and suddenly I'm "vandalizing government aircraft"

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Fighting these guys be like:

Sit
Pass time
Stand up
Sit
Try again
Die
Loading screen

Repeat until you kill him

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Low key Kratos vibes from this guy.

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love that I have to manually change it back to night every time I want to try fighting him.

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This ****er does not stop attacking, big problem with this type of enemy in this game

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Fun fact: In the OG version of Elden Ring this guy was supposed to be an Invader type enemy, that would appear in certain places, protecting items.

Idk why they changed him to be a Night Boss tho

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this guy is so sick. i love everything about his design, feels like he came out of an old school tabletop rpg.

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Dual godskin peelers - seppuku offhand - bloodhound step mainhand / white mask / raptors black feathers / lord of bloods exultation / rotten winged sword insiginia / millicents prosthesis / claw talisman / thorny cracked tear-greenburst crystal tear physick. All dead in 3-4 jump attacks on NG+3. Roll mele attacks, bloodhound step his lightsaber attacks. The one in dragonbarrow was a *****, died more than once because i panicked and didnt jump attack right away.

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The parry strat appears workable, although some unfortunate things may still happen. At least there's that one talisman that heals on critical strike, and also it's easy enough to heal after a riposte

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2 shot mechanic is absolutely degenerate mechanic in this game.

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Wait do i need to kill turtle bro for the church of vows hunter too spawn?

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Idk what everyone in ranting about this guy is really ****ing easy lol.

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I noticed many people here are having trouble with this guy. I recommend using a Cleanrot Knight sword at +12 and a Blue-Gold Kite Shield +15 since those two personally helped me beat him. He is vulnerable to Pierce Damage, so try out the various thrust Weapons available, Heavy Thrusting Swords are especially effective, even more so when paired with Lightning since Elemar is also vulnerable to Lightning.

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For Dragonbarrow one. Rotten Breath on horseback. Add some Blackflame balls if u bored. Keep distance.

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Used sword of st. trina +5. As he spawns, opened with a heavy attack, 3 hits, dodged, hit, he sleeps, wailed on him a few more times, staggered, heavy attack and finished.

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Why the hell are these petty merchant killers so ridiculously overtuned? Sure they look like towering shadowy medieval/fantasy Sith Lords, but at the end of the day they are basically just edgy shopkeeper muggers yet for some reason they are some of the worst bosses in the whole game.

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The teleport -> go AFK -> "why are my runes at 0?" Boss.

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I eventually learned to fight these bastards head on. Carian Retaliation and a strong kite shield is an absolute must. Parry, parry again, riposte, dodge the red attacks, and have a weapon strong enough to do more than 2% chip damage. I got so used to fighting them that I've started to enjoy the fights, looking forward to more in NG+.

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I can't believe I did it the normal way, I just rolled into his melee attacks, and considered his red attacks also be melee, the only time I was retreating was when he was using the shield bash at your feet, but if you can get asap close to him, he will resume to his melee sequence again, and just dodge the strikes, I used the Moonveil build, and instead of attacking normally, I'd just used one Transient Moon in beetwen his wind ups chain melee attacks, also, try to be patient when he's down for a critical strike, it's one of the most damaging attacks on him.

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input reading bastard. I toughed it out with a greashield + barricade AOW and the Epee, but anything that requires you to stand still for even a second unguarded is an uphill battle.

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Elden ring is my first fromsoft game and my first video game in general (not including browser games).

i beat the Warmaster shack one with dodging + lions claw but it was tough and pretty sweaty.

For the liurnia one I spammed Volcano pots + Dragonmaw with a little lightning spear and it was quite effective. i used Leaden & opaline tears, boiled crab, dragon crest shield talisman. Dodge rolled a lot

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I beat him by stacking damage negation, I used Dragoncrest Greatshield Talisman, Lionel's Armor(anything with high slash absorbtion works), Opaline Hardtear, Blackflame Protection(you can use Boiled Crab instead, it's only a 5% difference) and Leaden Hardtear for poise. You can also use Golden Vow, I just forgot.

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This guy moves 2x faster than the Nameless King in DS3 wtf

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Darth Vader hasn't been the same since herba was legalized

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The Caelid Dragonbarrow one could probably solo Mohg with how overtuned that bastard is.

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Night maiden's mist worked amazingly on the bell bearing hunter at the merchant shack in dragonbarrow. It eats his health away as he walks through it making me just let him slowly walk to me as I cast my mist.

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I can't get him to spawn no matter what I do. Do you have to be further in the game to spawn him?

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More like Ball Breaking Hunter or Blood Vessel Bursting Hunter.

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I you want to fight him fair and square like me (no summon / no cheese strat), I found out that the block + counter / riposte strategy was the best for me.

Since he always attacks with 3 or 4 hits, you have to dodge 1 or 2 and then block and counter the last. Rince and repeat until he eventually gets open for a critical.
Stamina management is the key. There some items and talismans that increase stamina bar or regen which can really help against him.

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Don't feel bad about cheesing this dude, if he doesn't play fair you sure as hell shouldn't be worried about not playing fair with him.

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i love people's strategy in the comments is most of the time a cheese/exploit strat and then they say he's not that hard. no poison, no torrent, no flame of the red manes, actually try to fight this guy normally and youll find that this game has very noticeable skidmarks of ennemies

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i wish i enjoyed his fight more, his moveset kinda forces you to play passively, which is so boring

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Easy cheese strategy is to climb on the merchant hut roof on torrent and spam him with arrows or throwables, his attacks cannot reach there. He will lose track of you and return to spawn if he gets inside the hut, at which point you can craft more stuff to spam him with. Might take a bit but I finally managed to beat isolated and hermit merchant ones with this strategy.

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i really like fighting these guys but the absolute bastard can do a whole string of attacks and then start a new string before you can finish the heal animation. should not be like that. it i get hit and then dodge an entire string of attacks then you should have a second to heal before he starts up more attacks. youre just not allowed to heal, ever. i still like him though

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I tried for two days to kill this absolute ******* in caelid. I even fully upgraded nightrider glaive just for this fight. I tried forever, until I tried on torrent and then I killed him first try. Just circle around him and away from his lightsaber throws and get a jab in here and there. Also used exalted flesh. I run a pure strength build with bullgoat armor.

I cannot understate the relief I felt when he finally moaned and died.

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This damn jerk almost made me think that Crucible Knights weren't so bad afterall, this bastard just feels like he was designed to be a giant **** you to the player and was intended to be a cheap infuriating jackass. Obnoxious range, can kill you in a few hits even if you have high vigor and good protection, annoying delays specifically made to piss you off, ungodly high poise, tanky, resistant to most damage, an awful grab attack thats extremely delayed has a giant hitbox and bs range that likely almost one shots you if it catches you, don't forget the obnoxious gap-closers that can hit you even if you're 60 feet away from him, yeah this scumlord just represents almost all of my most hated things in Elden Ring stuck together to form one aggravating, downright cheap shitlord of a boss, i apologize for the rant, but i just hate this cheap bastard with a passion.

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Meteoric ore blade is a godsend, just start doing charged R2s as they are spawning in and and they should be knocked down in 2-4 hits for some massive crit damage. Flame of the redmanes also works.

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For the Caelid version, use any of the multi-shot homing spells, preferably Stars of Ruin. Jump onto Torrent before you get close to where it causes him to spawn. Fire off a spell, and back off, doing laps around the merchant's hut. He'll never touch you. For all other versions - with the exception of his true form, Elmer - use Loretta's Greatbow or Mastery, or Cannon of Haima, if you're a spelluser. If you're melee, he's an utter chump - as with many things - to bloodloss. Any decently upgraded katanas or, of all things, Varre's Bouquet for the humiliation factor, will wreck him. Just whatever you do, do NOT try to stunlock him, it just won't work. Also, beware of his grab - his left hand will briefly glow red before he does it - the hitbox on it is completely broken as it can & will land even if you're in the middle of a roll. Also, his long range triple-sword swing attack tracks you, so if you're on much higher/lower ground, don't expect that to save you at all. Lastly, that same attack ignores walls and/or any obstacles between him & you. If he uses the attack it will hit you through anything.

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For some reason I find it difficult to dodge this big boy's grab attack. Either it's broken or I suck or could be both which all results in me getting grabbed.

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He's nearly deaf and has huge blind spots, poison proc him with an incant on repeat to cheese

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1- set in grace
2- pass time: until nightfall
2- leave grace.
3- set down again.
4- leave grace.
5- head toward the boss
6- die.
7- wait for loading
8- and repeat
...These, these steps right here are the true boss.

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The hit box on that grab attack is the most disgusting thing I’ve ever seen in a video game.

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One of those bosses who i will not hesitate to cheese and use my cheapest tactics possible to just get rid of him asap, this ahole makes my blood boil, i absolutely hate his guts.

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I killed them using arrows (regular + poison). Get far enough away and their AI becomes somewhat broken and they slowly retreat back toward base in a straight line. They are just not worth any more effort than this, considering how brutal they are and paltry the reward is.

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holy crap i just beat him (caelid) i broke his poise 4 times

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the fact he can 1 shot me makes me so f**king mad

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ok this is pissing me off the bell bearing hunter is the worse boss so far for me

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darth vader is here beware stormtroopers

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The freaking stun on this ****er everytime he gets a hit.

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This things spawn rate, range, and infinite poise are an exercise in frustration I will not condone.

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Honestly they should have saved the flying sword stuff for a second phase, imagine fighting this guy who seems very normal at first and then suddenly starts doing the sword magic stuff at half-health. It would be a DRASTIC change to the flow of the fight.

Also I'm not a huge fan of the nighttime only bosses in general, I don't like dying to them, not because I don't want to get better, but because of how tedious it is to get back to the fight as you have to reset the time of day back to nightfall at the Site of Grace just to make an attempt on said boss. It's just tedious busywork that makes dying to the nighttime only bosses more annoying than it needs to be.

If you could choose the time of day that you went back to after dying instead of it being only in the morning I wouldn't have this issue.

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Zero respect for this "boss" fight, poorly optimized animation timing. Not sure where From picked up the notion that spamming knock downs that empty your entire health bar equals a satisfying encounter. This problem didn't exist in previous titles, somehow double pursuer was more enjoyable.

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This fella has good taste in fashion.

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I defeated him with the Shield Bash-Skill on my Greatshield. First try. And roll, when he is using his swinging attacks and double roll when he is doing his annoying sword drill thing. Just blocking will drain your stamina + nearly no windows open for attacks.

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Got really mad at this dumb boss in Caelid so I had to sweat a bit. Pulled a 12+ dual swords one with frost and the other with bleed. Staggered him twice during the fight. Got his full moveset down but his slow attacks are really annoying. He also one or two shots me unless I increase equipment weight and wear heavy armor (was at level 76 and barely did damage).

It wasn't really difficult but honestly, this is how the series devolved in terms of gameplay IMO. Insane range, wide swings, AOE and infinite stamina. It feels like a rhythm game and there is no sense of range or strategy. Very lazy way to make enemies harder.

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dual bleed heavy thrusting swords make this a cake walk

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infinity poise

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I really like this boss
It's not a huge monster with a wacky hitbox that runs around you so you can't hit it even with your longest weapon
Nor it is a flying rat that poisons you and tries to make a one-shot grab attack every 5 seconds
just a simple force-wielding dude with a three-meter sword who is also parriable, fair and legit

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Parrying works really well, takes two parries to riposte and use his sword dance as an opportunity for regular atatcks

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i do love resting at a grace setting it to night waiting for clock animation to finish exiting out of the grace and then resting at the grace again exiting out again and then finally running to the boss to start the fight

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At Warmaster's shack, you can use a summon if you lure him East towards the camp. Clear the 3 soldiers and dog on the camp outskirts first so they don't sneak up on you. When your summon draws aggro you can easily punish with weapon arts to win the fight.

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For me, I could spawn the hunter at Church of Vows without traveling anywhere or talking to the turtle.
I used the grace to wait until night. Got up (only worked if I got up). Then I used the grace again to wait until morning.

I wonder if they intended for it to be like this-- kind of BS if so.

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I had more trouble with the Caelid one than with the real boss at Shaded Castle lol! FromSoft def gave up on these and went "how can we make it difficult?", *dev does a line of coke* "Just add another zero to the damage tooltip LMAO!".

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These are so stupidly implemented. So you have to wait at this specific grace point until night. Then when you notice the guy isn't in the shack, rest again -- but don't pass time. Then walk in the shack. Then he'll appear. What's the point of making something so obtuse like this?

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the wireless attack he do with his sword has infinite range

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This boss is a trick boss, all of his attacks are bait and switch or delayed attacks, pretty lazy

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Just use parrys, jump attacks, dodge rolls, and a +10 or more lightning Claymore. Dude wasn’t ready for the slicing.

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He did this spell once where he created large pool of blood underneath us, which reduces hp and causes bleed... basically his own zone
I don't see it being mentioned here

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Definitely one of the more unfair enemies of the game.

Aside from an extremely large health pool, defenses, and especially damage, he's extremely dangerous to fight at close range.
Several of his abilities have a slight delay, making it very easy to get hit by him. It also doesn't help that his weapon can hit at
a very far distance, something that he can and will spam.

His recovery time is also deceptively fast. You'd think not, and by all rights it really SHOULDN'T be, but well, this guy doesn't
play fair.

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This boss kind of sucks honestly

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The Lurinia one- be careful, if you pull him outside of the church for room to fight, you might aggro skeleton men. I had this guy plus two of them at once, and they respawn unless you hit them during their white spawn phase. Altus one for that reason, flame grant me strength>rot breath then let him tick down.

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Chosen undead hunter, is that you?

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The limgrave can easily be trapped by the small wooden part of the house, just stay in front of him and attack with any weapon with good range (ex spear)

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Dragonbarrow one at level 108 was really tough. I fought him using a dual Uchigatana/Wakizashi build with parry on the Wakizashi. You gotta stay close to him. His melee moves are very telegraphed and you can parry them. If you get hit or miss thr parry, gain distance and heal. He's weekest at a close range, but get far enough and nothing can hit you. Then it's a matter of dodging clode until you can resume thr melee/parry fight. Difficult, but really satisfying to beat him like that

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The Caelid Bell Bearing hunter is straight up trololol material for melee, but with high enough damage powerstancing greatswords you can take some good chunks out with jump attacks - just need to be peachy-keen on the plethora of dodges you will be doing.

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I'll try out flame of the redmanes and scarlet rot, as recommended in the comments, on the hunter that spawns in dragonbarrow later. Just out of curiosity, has anyone here fought him in Shaded Castle yet? I've been struggling to kill the weakest variation that spawns in war master's shack, and that fight is out in the open with plenty of room to roll and dodge.

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Why is the Caelid version so beefed up? I've had the same complaint with the Godskin Apostle.

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The Caelid version of this guy is one of the toughest enemies I've faced yet (level 113 currently) but melee combat with him using level 20 claymore may also be my most fun fight yet. His attacks are all telegraphed and once you get the rhythm down it's very satisfying punishing his misses. It also took me a while to learn that when you need to heal, you can back up far away from him with guard up until he can't reach you with his projectiles or dash.

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Doing a sleep run and can confirm this guy can be slept. He does a long stagger when sleep is procc'd which allows for two two-handed heavies with Sword of St. Trina which is usually enough to break his poise. Riposte with Misericorde, repeat.

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I am convinced the one in Caelid scales with player's level. Fought him at lvl 60, two-shot me, came back at lvl 100 with almost twice as much health and it two-shot me again. The amount of dmg he did with same attack would've one shot me back when I try him at lvl 50. FromSoft sometimes plays dirty.

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Alright, after trying and failing (numerous times) with different things like poison and thrusting weapons I had to use the tried and true CHEESE.
What cheese you may ask? Why flame of the redmanes of course!
With this simple trick, you too can defeat this dastardly bell bearing hunter whilst taking no damage! Hit with flame of the redmanes till he's stunned, crit him, and repeat till you win.
Remember friends, honour matters not in a world that does not respect it.

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Basically for all iterations:
- Apply rot with Rotten Breath incant
- Barricade shield, poke 3-4 times
- Keep moving away and to the side to circle around the respective shack/church and not aggro enemies in the area
- Re-apply rot when needed
- Don't get hit! :P
- Profit

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“Attack from an elevated position” is bad advice for mages. Dude has no problem with heights actually.

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The one in Dragonbarrow is no joke.

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I'm at leyndell royal capital, so not exactly starting fresh with a brand new build I haven't put any levels into yet, or had limited AoW to choose from, I wasn't using an early game weapon with no upgrades, and I can use some pretty decent incantations to buff myself or weapon. I hadn't tried one of these bosses until last night, I'd assume the bell-hunter that spawns in the war-master's shack in limgrave to be the least powerful of them, and it easily killed me six times in a row, five of those deaths were fair and square, one was caused by me getting cornered inside the war-master's shack and unable to move while he "cheesed" me. It really surprised me how strong he is and how hard he hits at what would be most players first encounter with him. He gave me much more trouble than I was expecting. Seems like one or two aren't getting him to spawn, at war-master's shack I advanced time to night, then fast travelled back to the grace check point outside the shack, he spawned for me every time, but inside the shack, at first I was running around outside thinking he would spawn in at a certain area, but its only when you go inside that he starts to spawn, the air around where he is spawning in has a reddish tint when he is on his way.

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You can’t allow distance between you and him he’s at his weakest when you’re close up

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It is easy to parry most of his attacks with a buckler or one of the enchanted shields since he telegraphs his attacks in advance. If you fail a parry, back off and wait until he begins his next combo to try and parry him again.

I think his glowing attacks and shield slam are the only ones that can’t be parried but I might be wrong.

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I beat him when he got stuck on the railing on the house's porch and his pathfinding got him stuck running into it. Pelted him to death with arrows. Cheesy Peezy

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After a dozen deaths, I had to completely cheese the one in Dragonbarrow. Loaded up on great arrows, made him spawn, used Torrent to jump on the roof, and patiently whittled him down as he walked back and forth.

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best cheese... sneak up behind him and do poison mist. he has no idea your even there and just gets poisoned and dies. (its a boring and dog way to do it but if your having heaps of trouble and your sick of it, this is the go)

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"Hey Miriel, I wanna buy some of that crap I'd been putting off. Miriel? Where are you? Mi- OH ****"

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The Pursuer from DS2 but on Telekinesis and Cocaine

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I just ****ing cheessed the caelid one, got on the roof the shack with torrent and slam them black flame balls on the ****er ass, got me sick

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Dang, didnt even know these guys existed

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Okay, this is actually just Darth Vader

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His "Red Sword Swing" attack seems to be able to headshot you, or possibly hit multiple times in one swing. I was getting occasionally one shot by it at 40 vigor with heavy armor (on the dragonbarrow one).

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As a faith caster, just stay the **** away and throw fire at him while he's busy throwing his sword around in a long ass combo which you easily outrange with your spells. Much easier fight than melee.

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Okay so i was fighting the bell bearing hunter in Caelid, and he did the move where he charges the red sword horizontal slash (which i do not see in the attack list), so i run away to make space to heal, then the sword shoots out in a very glitchy looking way mid horizontal red sword attack, in a manner similar to the red sword swing (the mid range one), hitting me immediatly, then he did a shield slam without his sword in his hand, and then resummoned the sword in what usually is behind the player (although i was even further so i wasn't in range to be hit), and then the fight continued like normal until i bested him.

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Dual greatswords with ice on them will turn this cheap pos into roadkill in seconds

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